Housing Affordability: Myth or Reality?

Linneman, Peter; Megbolugbe, Isaac F.

doi:10.1080/00420989220080491

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“…For example, it is sometimes assumed that home-ownership increases incentives for maintaining or even improving quality of the housing stock, thus protecting home-owners investment costs (Linneman & Megbolugbe, 1992). Another expectation concerns the extent of unregulated private rental tenure types, which is likely to drive housing deprivation at individual level.…”

Section: Housing Deprivation Is Lower In Countries With Dual Rental Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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Section: Housing Deprivation Is Lower In Countries With Dual Rental Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Linneman and Megbolugbe's [25] interpreted that the problem of affordability level especially for lower and middle class households is due to the low levels of job skills and education that they had. It then, began to experience affordability problems for these groups of people, not because of the housing prices had increased dramatically, but their incomes became stagnant and could not cope with the price offered in the market.…”

Section: Demographic Factors Influence Housing Market and Affordabmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Gen Y Housing Affordability Problem

Jiram¹,

Zarin²,

Bujang³

et al. 2015

IJTEF

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Abstract-Most of the available research today focuses on housing affordability between different income groups, affordable housing and housing market, but very little work has been done on housing affordability for different generations. Hence, this paper focuses on housing affordability for the young generation, otherwise known as Gen Y. In general, the study on housing for Gen Y is inter-connected with the study on demographic factors. Gen Y has been confronted with several housing issue which is the main housing issue for the Gen Y often relates to affordability to buy. The main question often raised is whether at this young age, a person can afford to buy and owned a house? Therefore, this study is carried to verify the level of affordability among the young age people to buy and owned a house. This study is also carried out to identify the factors influencing the problems faced by this age group to buy and owned a house. Looking at it from the positive side, buying a house at young age can be an advantage where they can enjoy a longer financing period. The longer term financing is taken; the amount pay for housing loan can be a small sum.Index Terms-Gen Y, house price, housing affordability, housing market, income.

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“…Singles household familial structures reflect different affordability levels than households with families. Adult children staying with their families are believed to help the family earn more income [22]. Hence [15] in his study has classified working children under a separate unit from parents in his analysis while dependent children were considered as one unit with the parents [15] reiterated that values for housing and non-housing vary depending on size and age of household group consumption.…”

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Identifying Variables Influencing Tenant Affordability to Pay Rent in Ipoh City Council Public Housing

Salleh

Yusof

Johari

et al. 2014

E3S Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Affordability reflects the challenges faced by households in balancing the real cost of housing and non housing expenditures against income limitations placed upon the household. Various methods have been introduced to measure housing affordability among households. This study was undertaken to identify the variables influencing tenant affordability to pay rent. Data was obtained through questionnaire distribution on 350 MBI public housing tenants using the strata sampling technique. This study found that only ethnic group variable significantly influenced the ability to pay rent. The study's findings proved that different ethnic groups faced different housing costs liabilities attributable to different socioeconomic status.

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Housing Affordability: Myth or Reality?

Cited by 130 publications

References 23 publications

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Measuring the Gen Y Housing Affordability Problem

Identifying Variables Influencing Tenant Affordability to Pay Rent in Ipoh City Council Public Housing

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